Tosa Mitsunori
Illustration — Illustration by Tosa Mitsunori from The Tale of Genji. Tosa Mitsunori (土佐光則, January 16, 1583 to March 1, 1638) was an illustrator from the Tosa school of painting during the Azuchi–Momoyama period and the early Edo period.
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Tosa Mitsunori
Tosa Mitsunori · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015 · Public domain (CC0, Met Open Access)
- Born
- 1583
- Died
- 1638 · Kyoto.
- Nationality
- Tokugawa shogunate
- Occupation
- painter
- Teachers
- Tosa Mitsuyoshi
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Illustration — Illustration by Tosa Mitsunori from The Tale of Genji. Tosa Mitsunori (土佐光則, January 16, 1583 to March 1, 1638) was an illustrator from the Tosa school of painting during the Azuchi–Momoyama period and the early Edo period.
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Tosa Mitsunori (1583–1638) was a painter, a national of Tokugawa shogunate. The painter died in Kyoto. Works are held at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and Yale University Art Gallery.
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Life
Life
He was a son of Tosa Mitsuyoshi and the father of Tosa Mitsuoki. Although having moved to Sakai in his youth, he sometimes presented painted fans to the Sentō Imperial Palace, but he did not receive a position at the court. About the age of 52, in his later years, he returned to Kyoto with his eldest son, Mitsuoki.
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Works
Many small works with gold backgrounds using variegated paints kept up the tradition of the Tosa school and showed much skill in their delicacy of depiction and the combinations of colours. Among the few surviving works of Mitsunori is a scroll known as the “Legend of the Taima mandala” (当麻曼荼羅図, Taimamandarazu), executed in a quite conservative style.
Literature
• Tazawa, Yutaka: “Tosa Mitsunori” in Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art. Kodansha, 825 pages, 1982.. • Laurance P. Roberts: “Mitsunori” in A Dictionary of Japanese Artists: Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Prints, Lacquer. Tuttle, 312 pages, 1976..
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